Speaking of Official Values

One notable omission from DIAC’s list of official Aussie values is “Every kid has a right to Santa Claus”.

Yes, it’s Santa-Bothering Season again. The season was opened yesterday by Andrew Bolt, with this post on the “Green grinch” who’s putting the chill on Christmas (and maybe Hannukah) this year. Here‘s where you’ll find a picture of the Kyoto Green Santa who’s got Andrew hopping mad.

As we all know around here at Larva-Prod, Green isn’t the only colour of PC – there are plenty of other politically correct causes which could do with a revisionist Santa.

So why not have a crack at providing one? Grab your coloured pencils, your pastels, your mouse or your graphics pad stylus, and let’s see what sort of politically correct Santa you can come up with. Do it for the kiddies!

Postscript: yes, I do have one or two ideas of my own I’m working on. I’ll post them if I ever get them looking satisfactory.

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Every display of Xmas lights is an unnecessary waste of energy, and contributes to global warming. Xmas in general is a time of overconsumption, and so the deconstruction of Xmas itself is a necessary goal in saving our planet.

Overconsumption for short periods is a fundamental feature of most human cultures, and is scarcely going to disappear. What we need is to redirect Xmas consumption away from the most destructive aspects and towards others.

BTW My PC Santa visited a month early this year. Her name is Penny Wong.

And the benefit of running two consumption festivals together could be realised by chopping a couple of days off the merged entities. It is caculated that the actual consumption lost would be minor, while the reduction of ‘lost time’ would more than compensate for minor and short term expenditure blips and result long term, in a greater capacity to consume across the year, thus smoothing somewhat the bumps and lumps caused by patterns of productive activity occasionally interrupted by short term bursts of consumption/rest.

I think people should just settle down a little bit about Christmas,not because they are wrong in their criticisms ,but because they are right.And any other meaning it has should require a keen awareness of say how to use all the festive paraphanalia[hard getting the spelling and meaning right],could be put to use in other ways,because I think that is the main problem with the lights and other festive displays..and Australians seem to be generally reluctant to find some advantage in bad design to correct all the manifestations of that.Could a collection be made of all these manifestations,and see if they serve a useful purpose elsewhere!?.I recently saw a YouTube on running a tv. on a three A battery .One of the most useless things I have is the bloody telephone which has sunk,by bill, any good tidings at years end…more wits end.And Santa Claus and clauses Telstra may mean,I kick the computer habit…which as cold turkey isnt that hard to do.

[…] culture, federal election ’07, fun, life, religion, sociology — mbahnisch @ 1:09 am As Gummo pointed out, the onset of Santa-bothering Season in the tabloids is a sure sign that the festive season has […]

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